Example Sentences

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Don’t get me wrong, “Party Down” is still shriekingly funny.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023

Everyone is shriekingly upset, but Mimi seems close to nuclear meltdown.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2019

It does that, too, as well as solving all manner of other shriekingly mundane non-problems around the house.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2016

He laughs — shriekingly so — at all of his own jokes.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2016

From the darkness that they called "west," winds rushed shriekingly into the sunrise.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Bates, Harry